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Interview: Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli's Mandragola | The New Thinkery Ep. 76

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Self Government Is the Most Effective Government

Government works best when it can claim to represent you, the people you arenes that's the true meaning of self government. So if you can get a people to believe that don they are governing themselves in this way, this will be much more effectual government than if you just ot impose your will on them. And so i connect this with e later figure thomas hobbs who invented the idea of representative government.

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